geico. just click away with our free mobile app. >>> 2012 has seen some major break throughs in science and technology. our john zarrella taking a look at the year that's going to go down in history. >> reporter: at number ten, a revolutionary camera called litro. >> it's such a powerful technology break through that this will for ever change how we take pictures. >> it allows the picture's focus to be changed after it's been taken. number nine, nasa's dawn spacecraft sent back data about ans aster royed called ves that. it appears vesta went through some stages of planetary evolution. it's one of a kind in the solar system. >> what's clear to us is vesta appears to be the only intact protoe planet left. >> reporter: number eight you may have heard the term god particle. the european nuclear research organization claims to have found it. why is it a big deal? think big bang theory. >> and this particle we think was, in fact, a particle like this was the fuse that set off the explosion which